Homemade Toaster Strudels Recipe

Want to make your own homemade Toaster Strudels? This recipe will show you how to make this easy grab-and-go breakfast! It also features dairy and gluten free alternatives so just about anyone can make them.

Homemade Toaster Strudels Recipe

Some mornings it’s nice to have breakfast to take on the go. Before I made these, I’d seen several recipes around the blogosphere for homemade pop tarts but I’m not really a big fan of those, I liked toaster strudels better. So here’s what I came up with, I like to just stick them in the freezer so anyone can just grab one for breakfast!

Homemade Toaster Strudels

What you need:

2 c. flour

2 t. baking powder

3/4 t. salt

6 T. butter softened

3/4 c. (or less) milk

Milk together the dry ingredients. Crumble in the butter. I like to use a fork to do this since I don’t have a pastry cutter.

Slowly add in the milk. You may not need the whole 3/4 cup. You don’t want the dough to be sticky since you need to be able to roll it out.

Roll the dough into a ball.

Roll out the dough into something of a square shape.

Fold the dough in half.

And fold it in half again. And roll out into another square shape. Do this several more times. Don’t knead the dough, you are trying to make layers.

Pull the dough in half after you’ve folded and rolled it out at least 5 times. It should look like this. Nice and layery.

Roll out very thin. Then cut into rectangles about 5″x6″.

Place a filling in the middle of half of the squares. For this batch, I used applesauce that I canned last fall. You could use jams, applesauce, pureed fruit, or more.

Fold the dough in half and crimp the edges with a fork.

Brush the strudels with butter. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes. They won’t be brown when they are done but they will get nice and puffy.

Yummy. They smell so good when you take them out of the oven! This recipe makes at least 10 pastries.

Gluten Free Toaster Strudels or Dairy Free Toaster Strudels

You can make variations to this recipe if you need it to be dairy free or gluten free. Here are some ideas.

Gluten Free Toaster Strudels – Use an All Purpose Gluten Free Flour instead of regular flour. Since this recipe doesn’t have a binder, you will also want to make sure to add 1 teaspoon of Xanthan Gum to the mixture if your flour does not have it in it. The texture of the dough will be slightly different (drier and a bit crumblier) but you should still be able to continue with the rest of the recipe as is. If you have trouble rolling out the dough with gluten free flour, chill it in the fridge before you work on rolling it out.

Dairy Free Toaster Strudels – Replace the milk with a milk alternative and brush the tops of the strudels with an egg wash or a buttery spread alternative in place of the butter. We like to use this Earth Balance Buttery Spread to replace butter in some recipes. With the replacements, you can continue with the recipe as written or follow the gluten free instructions above.

Need the printable recipe for these Homemade Toaster Strudels? Grab it below!

Merissa

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Love it! My son can’t egg store Toaster Strudels because of eggs in them. But I’d love to try this for him. I’ve got home made strawberry jam from last year that I need to use up soon. I’m trying this!

So excited to see this recipe, my girls aren’t big breakfast eaters but I hate to send them to school without eating something. They love toaster strudels but I don’t buy them often. These look like they would be the perfect thing plus on the mornings we are running late they could eat them on the way out the door to the bus!!! 🙂

These are awesome! I love that I can make a bunch on the weekends, with whatever flavors I have on hand, and use them all week for quick breakfasts for hubby and I to eat on the way to work. So far, I’ve filled them with strawberry jam and ham & cheese — yummy stuff! Thanks for the recipe!

We made these this morning and LOVED them! I must say– I appreciate you posting your recipes! Because of dietary restrictions– we have to avoid many things and your generosity, time and effort helps us out tremendously! I love that you value whole foods! Thank you!!

Now– these were fabulous! we put your apple pie filling in them and they went fast! LOVE your recipes! Thanks!

I am thinking of making these and freezing them for my grandchildren. Do you think they will not get soggy if you freeze them? By the way, I just found your site yesterday and I think it is WONDERFUL!!!!!! At least what I have seen thus far.

Wow what a great idea! So many possibilities for fillings! I can’t wait to give this a try! I would love to make a pumpkin filling for these. If you ever experiment with that idea, please let me know! Thanks for the great recipe!

we are in New Jersey and at the shore, which has been ravaged. we just got power back on and moved back home after being displaced. this is the first recipe I see. I will make these tomorrow when i get to the store as all we have is gone….look [email protected]

I found a quicker way to do these.Take a tube of those flaky biscuits and roll each one out into a large square, or as close to it you can.Or you can make them rounded, like a pierogie, your choice. Make sure you flour the surface and rolling pin, as the dough is a bit sticky. Roll them out as thinly as possible. Then take a bit of preserves( your choice of flavor), or hazelnut spread, about a tablespoon and smooth it out, but leave the edges of the dough bare for crimping. Fold the dough over the filling and flatten a bit to make sure the filling is even. Crimp closed with a fork or if you have a pierogie press, use that. Take a little bit of melted butter or oil and brush each one, sprinkle with a little sugar(or not, your choice). Put them on a cookie sheet. Bake at the directions on the tube(set timer for the lesser time and check them), but keep an eye on them, you don’t want them to burn. Pull out when just golden brown. My son is picky and they went quick!

I LOVE this and can’t wait to try it for my kids! They are huge fans of toaster strudels but we only have them once in a blue moon because they are so bad for you. I am totally digging the idea of homemade:) Thanks for the recipe!

I just made these this morning. Oh, my!! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. These are excellent. I made ours with homemade strawberry jam and some of the others with the jam and a dollop of cream cheese. These are much better than the expensive toaster strudels!! Thank you!!!

I will be spending a few hours before school starts and doing the following for easy healthy lunches,
Ham cheddar cheese, turkey and mozzarella/Havarti cheese, pepperoni pizza
Hopefully they will turn out all yummy.
(Adding a little bit of sugar to the dough recipe makes a hint of sweetness to the pastry when working with meats)

Wow this is perfect
My 6yo is soooo picky and i have been striving to clean up what he eats
Soo making these!
We happen to have home made fig jam that he loves so that is going in!
Adore yor site btw! Just found you via Pintetest
I had to simplify my life drastically few years ago and now that i am bouncing back i am hoping to further simplify my life moving foward!

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